Building panel connector assembly and the like

Claim 1

A connector assembly for connecting together adjacent structural modules in a building of substantially modularized construction, the connector assembly comprising a pair of anchor assemblies each including an elongated metal anchor channel and means for rigidly securing each channel in an upwardly open disposition to a horizontal upper edge of a module adjacent a vertical edge thereof to be aligned with and substantially contiguous to the other anchor channel of the pair in a building for intimate mating receiving engagement between the flanges thereof with a connector plate of the connector assembly, the securing means for each anchor channel including elongate means connected to the channel to extend substantially normal to the channel and adapted to be embedded in the material of a module, an elongate connector plate configured to mate within the anchor channels of the anchor assemblies intimately between the flanges thereof, a pair of threaded fasteners cooperating between each anchor channel at spaced locations therealong through corresponding apertures in the connector plate for coupling the connector plate and the anchor assemblies in said mated engagement, the fasteners in said cooperation being fixed from movement relative to the respective channel in a direction along the elongate extent of the channel, the connector plate fastener apertures associated with one anchor channel of the pair thereof being round and sized to mate intimately with the corresponding fasteners for securing the connector plate fixedly to the one channel, the connector plate fastener apertures associated with the other anchor channel being oversized for connecting the connector plate to the other anchor channel and, in cooperation with said mated engagement of the connector plate with said other channel, for constraining the other channel to move relative to the connector plate only in the direction of the elongate extent of the other channel.